Symptomatology of aphasia
Tanabe, H.
Rinsho Shinkeigaku 44(11): 837-838
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0009-918X PMID: 15651307 Document Number: 580587
Recently, some standard test batteries such as Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination and Western Aphasia Battery are frequently used to assess language abnormalities and to identify individual types of aphasia. Aphasia is, however, a neurologic disorder and differential diagnosis of the type should be made naturally in the neurological examination. Characteristics of verbal output are most important clinically for the classification. The table shows core symptoms of classical aphasic types. The figure presents a systematic approach to aphasia diagnosis based on several different patterns of aphasic output.